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Care Coordination: The Key to Improving Patient Outcomes

Relias

What is care coordination? Coordination of care is the process of organizing and integrating health care services for patients across care settings and providers. It can involve prenatal care, labor and delivery care, postpartum care, newborn care, family planning, and maternal and infant health services.

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Why Care Coordination Is Important for Home Health and Hospice Agencies

Relias

A well-designed care coordination process benefits patients, providers, and payer organizations. Improved care quality and patient safety, reduced readmissions and ER visits, and lower healthcare costs are just some of the positive outcomes of effective care coordination. Care coordination under HHVBP.

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Let’s huddle up

American Nurse

A comprehensive ambulatory cancer center’s journey to implementing tiered huddles Takeaways: Tiered huddles are brief conversations that occur throughout levels of an organization or across health systems to improve patient safety, communication, situational awareness, care coordination, resource utilization, patient outcomes, and service.

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Virtua Health Launches AI-Enabled Virtual Nursing Program

Health Leaders | Nursing

Virtua executives say the platform aims to streamline patient care “from routine admit and discharge activities to documentation, fall prevention, and clinician safety.” [See also: Hospitals Are Looking for Hard ROI in Virtual Nursing.]

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Healthcare Technology and Nursing: What You Should Know

Diversity Nursing

It also significantly reduces travel time and patient expenses, improves care coordination, and allows Nurses to reach a larger patient population. Wearable Medical Devices Wearable medical devices offer Nurses new tools to enhance patient care and monitoring.

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Hospitals Are Looking for Hard ROI in Virtual Nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

Bedside nurses spend way too much time in documentation," Warr says. The new program, she says, assigns those tasks to the virtual nurse, who can sit in a room in another part of the hospital and handle EMR documentation for several patients. Please join the community at [link].

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Team Up to Tackle Care Redesign

Health Leaders | Nursing

The third team member, a veteran nurse, is in the telehealth center, monitoring patients and assisting the bedside team (as well as doctors) with documentation and consults. The virtual nurse, meanwhile, sits in the background, offering support when needed, answering calls from patients, and keeping watch over several rooms.